Martin Sheen just sent me a personal e-mail asking me to meet him in Iowa! Oh, rats, I guess everyone who is on Bill Richardson’s e-mail list got the same invitation, as I’m also being asked for a donation. It must be cool to have the guy who portrayed the most presidential person we’ve see in a long time on your team.

Possibly better than having Janeane Garofalo on your team. Yes, she was blonde when she was in Iowa campaigning for Dean. Please don’t judge my appearance too harshly in this pic. I was almost asleep in a Girl Scout cabin out in the middle of nowhere after a 17-hour bus ride and a day slogging though freezing rain going door-to-door for Dean in Des Moines when someone opened the door to our cabin and asked if we’d mind having Janeane stop by to thank us for volunteering. Mind? No, not at all. We ended up with hundreds of people crammed into our tiny cabin that was already full of bunk beds.

Joan Jett stopped in, too, but her pics are even blurrier. We sang “We love Howard Dean, Put a Democrat in the White House, Baby!” to the tune of “I Love Rock and Roll” for the rest of the weekend.

Did I mention that it was incredibly cold? According to the temperature gauge, it was three degrees the following morning. Temperatures should have more digits than that.

Am I a Bill Richardson supporter? I’m not getting attached to anyone until Iowans decide who gets the nomination, since I learned first hand that they get to pick and that they don’t really care what anyone from out of state thinks. Some economists only just figured that out, but boy did I learn it the hard way.